Monday, November 15, 2010

The Ghost Maker: A Halloween Tale

"I live my days in silence, behind the barred in windows of this asylum, in a cell of shadows. Until this moment I have spoken to no living person of the events of that Halloween night five years ago - because I could neither ask for nor expect belief."

Click the image to read John Carpenter's short story which appeared in the New York Times on October 31, 1988.

Image by Burning Smile.

Thanks, Randy. I never knew this existed.

2 comments:

Hopsy the beer drinking clown said...

great short story, surprised he didn't do something with this like masters of horror...hmmmm

Goneferalinidaho said...

For some reason I never liked the cat in the box experiment. Now for the cats in the "piano" with hammers that make each cat meow a note...